Wasserlos Castle

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Former Schloss Wasserlos (now the district hospital)
The oldest part of the castle with a central projection and a younger porch
English landscape park at the castle with historic copper beech

The waterless Castle is located in Alzenau district waterless in the district of Aschaffenburg in Bavaria .

history

Wasserlos Castle was built in 1790 on the remains of the former castle by Prince Ludwig Eugen , son of Duke Karl Alexander von Württemberg . The owner around 1800 was Johann Gabriel Marquis von Chasteler de Courcelles ; under this the garden and the farm buildings were expanded and a pavilion was built as a tea house. Ludovica des Bordes , born in 1845 to 1868, was among the other castle owners . Brentano , called Lulu, who restored the castle chapel in 1851, and her adoptive daughter Meline, wife of Count Moritz Casimir zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda (1798–1877).

In 1866 the palace served as a hospital during the German War . In 1901, Baron von Mumm acquired the Wasserlos estate. He was a progressive farmer and the wines and brandies made here were of good repute. He also ran a well-known cattle and horse breed. He was followed in 1916 by Wilhelm Weigang, who rebuilt the palace after the First World War. In 1942 the Weigang family sold the castle property, which was used as a hospital again during the Second World War, to the Reich Youth Administration of the NSDAP . At the end of the war, the palace and park were confiscated by the military government and then became the property of the State Office for Asset Management. In 1945 the military government approved the transfer of the castle to what was then the Alzenau district.

On April 1, 1949, ownership was transferred to the State of Bavaria, which handed over the entire area with the 3.3 hectare English Garden to the Aschaffenburg district in 1951. Since the end of the Second World War, the district hospital was set up in the castle to supply the Altlandkreis Alzenau. Today the Alzenau-Wasserlos location of the Aschaffenburg-Alzenau Clinic is located in the castle and the annexes.

useful information

In the hospital park with walking paths along ponds, the Rückersbach and through mixed forests with historical trees (red beeches, oaks, plane trees) there are also exotic trees (e.g. sequoias ) that do not normally thrive in this region. There is also the entrance to a former secret passage that ends at the war memorial (former tea house and belvedere). Historically, it has not been conclusively clarified whether the secret passage really served as an escape route or served other purposes.

literature

  • Josef August Eichelsbacher: Heimatbuch des Kahlgrundes, Part I, history and legends , 1928.
  • Josef August Eichelsbacher: Heimatbuch des Kahlgrundes, Part II, Land and People , 1930.
  • Our Kahlgrund 1956–2013 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN  0933-1328 .
  • Working group for local history research: wayside shrines and field monuments of the Alzenau district , 1971.
  • City of Alzenau: Alzenauer Stadtbuch , 2001.
  • Local history and history association Alzenau: History notes 11, The waterless castle chapel , 2012

Web links

Commons : Schloss Wasserlos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 9.9 ″  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 31.6 ″  E